Born in Nebraska in 1931, Raymond Huffman was deputized by the Lincoln Sheriff’s Department at
the age of 14 before finding his way into the aeronautics industry. He eventually settled into the San
Francisco Bay Area and was promoted to Head Janitor at The Spaulding Residential Hotel in 1978, where
he met and moved in with Peter Haskett. Ray died in 1992.

Peter Haskett was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1928 and grew up in central California. The son of a
policeman, Peter grew up thinking his teenage mother was his sister and his grandmother his mother.
He served briefly in the Army before graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in
advertising and journalism and working for several ad companies up until the 60s. As legend has it, Peter
worked on the J.F.K election campaign and was so affected by the President’s assassination that he took
to drink. He was living in at The Spaulding Residential Hotel when he met Ray, who was the janitor in the
building before they moved into their Steiner St apartment together. Peter died in 1996.